Hyegyeong Choi: Tethered, Untethered presents new paintings in which technicolor figures oscillate between hunter and hunted — some literally bound by ropes or hair, others metaphorically consumed by their pursuits. Drawing on Courbet's Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare and Titian's Diana and Actaeon cycle, Choi examines shifting dynamics of power, desire, and survival where roles collapse without warning. In Venery, a hunter aims simultaneously with bow and paintbrush, collapsing the distance between hunter and prey, subject and environment. Across the exhibition, control is never fixed and release is never complete — the hunt continues, and the viewer is pulled into the same unstable field
